Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the high court’s only African American jurist, hardly ever speaks in public. But he made news recently with comments that he always knew that America’s first black president would be “approved by the elites” — oh, and the media.

Thomas made the statements recently in an interview at Duquesne Law School in Pittsburg, in which he expounded on politics — which he doesn’t like — and Obama.

In the appearance, Thomas was pointedly asked if he ever expected to see an African American president in his lifetime.

The jurist said said he expected “it would have to be a black president who was approved by the elites and the media, because anybody that they didn’t agree with, they would take apart.”

“And that will happen with virtually – you pick your person, any black person who says something that is not the prescribed things that they expect from a black person will be picked apart,” he said in the interview.

“You can pick anybody, don’t pick me, pick anyone who has decided not to go along with it; there’s a price to pay,” he continued. “So, I always assumed it would be somebody the media had to agree with.”